Wasim Jaffer offers Mitchell Starc a place in KXIP team using Mirzapur meme

Jaffer has become a social media darling for his meme use.

The MIrzapur dialogue Wasim Jaffer used to entice Starc into joining KXIP

Kings XI Punjab batting coach Wasim Jaffer is a domestic cricket legend in India. He also played 31 Tests and 2 ODIs for India between 2000-2008 and made 1944 and 10 runs respectively.

His highest Test score was 212 against the West Indies in Antigua in 2006 and also scored 202 against Pakistan in Kolkata in 2007. He called time on his cricketing career in 2020 with 19410 FC runs with 57 centuries in 260 matches. He also made 4849 runs in 118 List-A games with 10 centuries.

Currently, he is the batting coach of Kings XI Punjab in the IPL and was seen with the squad in UAE for the ongoing IPL 2020. Unfortunately, his team couldn’t qualify for the playoffs losing their last league match to CSK.

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However, Jaffer became an internet and social media darling thanks to his meme game on Twitter. Jaffer used pop culture references in his replies to fans and as reactions to happenings during the entire IPL and amused his followers as well.

Recently, Australian pacer Mitchell Starc announced his return to the Big Bash League after 6 years, as he signed up with the Sydney Sixers franchise. Starc has also been a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise in IPL.

However, Wasim Jaffer used the opportunity to use a famous meme from web-series Mirzapur, in which a character Rati Shukla asks the protagonists Guddu and Bablu Pandit to join his gang. Shukla says, “Humko join kar lo, milke Mirzapur chalayenge

Jaffer used the same dialogue in an effort to entice Starc into joining the KXIP camp for IPL 2021.  

 

 
 

By Jatin Sharma - 10 Nov, 2020

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